Port Neches man in jail after SWAT team removed him from his home

Updated 11:10 am, Tuesday, March 27, 2012

A 63-year-old Port Neches man is in the Jefferson County Correctional Facility charged with deadly conduct after a SWAT team had to remove him from his home.

According to a news release from Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputy Rod Carroll, the county's Special Weapons and Tactics Team responded to a home in the 2300 block of Fourth Street in Port Neches at 1:15 a.m.

A resident called police to say a neighbor was in the home, Carroll said. The man returned to his own home before Port Neches police arrived, Carroll said.

When police arrived at the man's home, he came to the door with a rifle in his hands, Carroll said.

Port Neches police made several unsuccessful attempts to get the man to exit the home, Carroll said, and eventually called the SWAT team for assistance.

SWAT negotiators attempted to contact the man for several hours without success, and during that time he appeared at the front door several times with the rifle displayed, Carroll said.

When the SWAT Team attempted to get through the front door, the man displayed the rifle, Carroll said.

SWAT eventually entered the home and subdued the man using a sponge round, or less-lethal force, Carroll said.

The man was treated and released from the Medical Center of Southeast Texas, then booked into the county's correctional facility.